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...those fossils are real. Chinese scientists say fake fossils are so pervasive in Chinese museums that using authenticity as the basis for judging a collection's worth is unrealistic. "Granted, there are many fakes and processed [fossils] in Tianyu, like everywhere else in China," says Xu Xing, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is part of a team that discovered primitive dinosaur feathers in fossils that are now housed at Tianyu. "But I was truly astonished by the caliber of its real and valuable collections...It probably has a larger collection of complete fossil skeletons than...
...world and to attract new audiences,” says Elisabeth Werby, the executive director of HMNH. “They are meant to be intriguing and provocative exhibitions.”Purcell, who has frequented natural history museums for years, also collaborated with the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on three books (including “Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet”). She is living proof that interdisciplinary researchers not only exist, but can apply different insight to an object of study.Purcell believes that an artist and a scientist can make a “powerful...
...tradition of top Harvard scientists writing popular books did not begin with Randall: the famous paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould won widespread acclaim for his essays on popular science and his bestselling books on evolutionary biology, a tradition that has been continued by scientists like psychology professors Marc D. Hauser and Steven A. Pinker, who have written a combined 7 books on cognitive psychology...
...diplomats are venturing into a country with a power vacuum. "I think Kibaki is getting very poor advice. He's showing no personal leadership in this crisis; I'm not quite sure who around him is making the decisions," says Richard Leakey, the world famous paleontologist and chairman of WildlifeDirect.org, who is active in Kenyan politics as an anti-corruption campaigner. "I think that's a large part of the problem - the country feels at sea without a captain. But ODM has made some pretty outrageous statements too. Everybody is playing bad guy on this and nobody is trying...
...David Pilbeam? The metaphysical complications of a question like this could leave philosophers debating for days. However, for many Harvard students, Pilbeam is interim dean of the College, social science professor, paleontologist and, of course, the person responsible for squashing UC party grants. But for all the self-righteous outrage in the fallout of Pilbeam’s controversial decision earlier this fall, can Harvard students pick him out of a lineup? A recent survey says maybe, but don’t put your money on it. In a super-scientific poll conducted among 40 Harvard students in Annenberg Hall...